The Alvis Delk Track:
New fossil human with dinosaur footprint
This spectacular fossil footprint was found in July of 2000 by amateur archaeologist, Alvis
Delk of Stephenville, Texas and is now on display at the Creation Evidence Museum, Glen
Rose, TX. Mr. Delk found the loose slab against the bank of the Paluxy River, about one mile
north of Dinosaur Valley State Park. He flipped over the rock and saw an excellent dinosaur
track, so he took it home where it sat in his living room for years, with hundreds of other
fossils.
Early in 2008 he had a devastating accident. He fell off of a roof incurring damage that
required months of hospitalization. He still has a dangerous blood clot in his brain.
When he returned to his home, he decided he would sell the dinosaur track, thinking Dr. Carl
Baugh of the nearby Creation Evidence Museum would pay a few hundred dollars for it. He
began to clean the rock, and that was when he discovered the fossil human footprint
underneath the dried clay!
The human footprint had been made first, and shortly thereafter (before the mud turned to
stone), a dinosaur stepped in the mud with its middle toe stepping on top of the human track.
You can actually see the displaced mud from the dinosaur's middle toe inside the human
footprint.
Spiral CT scans are used to generate images of the inside of an object from a large series of
two-dimensional X-ray images taken around a single axis of rotation. This technology
provides an effective means of analyzing fossil footprints without physically destroying
them. It allows us to see inside the rock, specifically, under the footprint.
Video that explains the whole process of the CT scan
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The Alvis Delk Track
2008-11-21
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